ACWA submitted a comment letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers regarding their “Proposed Rule: Definition of “Waters of the United States” – Recodification of Pre-existing Rules“, also known as “step 1” of the EPA’s 2-step process to repeal the 2015 Clean Water Rule and then set forth a new rule containing a new definition of “Waters of the United States” which is influenced by Justice Scalia’s opinion in the 2006 Supreme Court case Rapanos v United States.
ACWA Letter to EPA USACE re WOTUS Step 1
